The 16th Annual NHMC Impact Awards – held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California – honored Peña with an award for “Outstanding Performance in a Motion Picture” for his role in “End of Watch.” Lopez, who recently announced that he is expecting a second baby with wife Courtney Mazza Lopez, received the “Outstanding Media Entrepreneur” for his on-air appearances with shows like “The X Factor.”

Other honorees during the evening’s gala emceed by Tony Plana and Aimee Garcia included “Homeland” actress Morena Baccarin, “Once Upon A Time” stunner Lana Parilla and Ginna Torres (USA’s “Suits”), who each received “Outstanding Female Performances in a Television Series.”

This year’s Impact Awards also handed out its first ever Lupe Ontiveros Indomitable Spirit Award, to Tony Hernandez, the co-founder and executive producer of the Immigrant Archive Project. which seeks to document the immigrant experience in the United States.

NHMC was founded in Los Angeles, California in 1986 with the mission to increase Hispanic representation in the local news. Now, the organization has nine chapters nationwide and endeavors to“ eradicate the negative Latino stereotypes depicted in all forms of media.”